Training Log Archive: bgallup

Event: NEOC: Breakheart
 

just got back from the doc for this nagging (2wk) chest cough - came back with scripts for antibiotics (zithromax, the nuclear option. seems like overkill to me - time to buy some yogurt, if you catch my drift), opiated cough syrup (hooray uninterrupted sleep!), and an albuterol inhaler - which brings back memories. thinking my aspirations for the blue hill traverse might get pushed back a year

C • Bummer 5

hideous bouldering, semi-competent toproping (9,9+,10b,10a,'10',10a,10b - more than half clean). lead an 8 - made it look desperate, but cleaned it. amazing how hard it is to keep your head in check even though the climbing's no different, just the consequences - even if the consequences are almost nil in the gym. that said, i really don't dig the 'get used to falling' thinking that seems gym standard, and dig the old-school 'just don't fall' ethic. finished off with some passable slacklining

good solid set of bouldering - a pair of v1's and then waltzed all the v2's they had. there's a wall between here and v3's still, though. which is annoying - i keep thinking of those v4's i was getting three months back. some semi-decent slacklining, a total crap rendition of a stemmy 5.10b, and then cruised a 5.9+ on the prow. similar wall between 10a and 10b - need to lead/top[rope more.

Event: NEOC: Needham Town Forest